Design Manager, Enterprise Markets

at  KimberlyClark

ABOUT US

Huggies®. Kleenex®. Cottonelle®. Scott®. Kotex®. Poise®. Depend®. Kimberly-Clark Professional®. You already know our legendary brands—and so does the rest of the world. In fact, millions of people use Kimberly-Clark products every day. We know these amazing Kimberly-Clark products wouldn’t exist without talented professionals, like you.
At Kimberly-Clark, you’ll be part of the best team committed to driving innovation, growth and impact. We’re founded on more than 150 years of market leadership, and we’re always looking for new and better ways to perform – so there’s your open door of opportunity. It’s all here for you at Kimberly-Clark.

WHEN APPLYING FOR THIS ROLE, PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR PORTFOLIO ALONG WITH YOUR CV TO SHOWCASE YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE.

You’re not the person who will settle for just any role. Neither are we. Because we’re out to create Better Care for a Better World, and that takes a certain kind of person and teams who care about making a difference. Here, you’ll bring your professional expertise, talent, and drive to building and managing our portfolio of iconic, ground-breaking brands. In this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world. It starts with YOU.

In this role, you will be reporting to the Enterprise Markets (EM) Head of Design and drive design excellence of

• Adult Feminine care – Kotex, Depend, Plenitud, Poise, Confidence
• Baby and Child care – Huggies

in the EM markets - ISEA, EMEA and LATAM. You will be responsible for delivering the best executions of multiple brand touch points across design strategy, packaging & product design, product innovation, and ecommerce visual assets.

• Collaborate with the design leaders to create the design strategy fundamentals and generate design solutions (visions, innovation concepts, and scenarios) independently with your own mastery of design.
• Demonstrate a superior ability create high-quality, inspirational brand design solutions and to start applying design thinking from ideation through concept development, refinement, and execution.
• Bring the design strategy to life across assigned projects/initiatives by collaborating with internal stakeholders (design leaders, marketing, product developer, research analysis etc) and external design agencies.
• Deliver seamless packaging design experience from master design to local adaptation by working closely with artwork mangers.
• Participate in research activities and effectively translates customer needs into actionable design requirements and apply those requirements into design solutions.
• Responsible for driving final design recommendations including decisions and design approval to enable artwork execution / production phases.

In one of our professional roles, you’ll focus on winning with consumers and the market, while putting safety, mutual respect, and human dignity at the center. To succeed in this role, you will need the following qualifications:

• When applying for this role, please submit your portfolio along with your CV to showcase your skills and experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in graphic designs, packaging design, or related field.
• Minimum over 5 years of working experience in leading and developing design strategy
• Extraordinary design taste and expertise with an excellent sense of design trends
• Strong design portfolio that demonstrates design mastery in graphic design, packaging design, brand design, and show a range of visual assets and layouts in a wide variety of styles.
• Proven experience in developing a wide range of 360 brand touch points from initial ideation, through concept development, to commercialization (packaging, digital, posm, etc)
• Effectively communicates (verbally and written) with internal and external business partners
• Collaborative and works well with others to deliver results
• Excellent time and project management skills to be able to meet project deadlines.
• Advanced experience with Adobe Creative Suite software.
• Preference for those with experience in AI image generation tools (Adobe Firefly and Midjourney)
• Proficient communication in English